Focus & Productivity Blog
Practical, evidence-informed guides on focus, procrastination, and studying — from the team behind the timer.
Pomofocus Review: Strengths, Limits, and When to Look Elsewhere
An honest look at Pomofocus — what it does well, where it falls short, and what to consider if you want a floating always-on-top timer or offline desktop app.
Read →Pomodoro Technique vs Time Blocking: Which Should You Use?
Pomodoro and time blocking solve different problems. One protects your attention span; the other protects your calendar. Here's when to use each — and how to combine them.
Read →The Best Study Techniques for Exams (Backed by How Memory Works)
Re-reading and highlighting feel productive but barely work. Here are the study techniques that actually build durable memory — retrieval practice, spacing, and timed focus.
Read →How to Focus When You Just Can't Concentrate
Can't focus? Attention is a limited resource that drains and recovers. Here's how to remove friction, work in short protected blocks, and rebuild concentration.
Read →How to Stop Procrastinating: A Practical, No-Guilt Guide
Procrastination is an emotion problem, not a laziness problem. Here's how to lower the barrier to starting and actually begin — using timers, tiny steps, and self-compassion.
Read →What we write about here
These are the guides we wanted to exist while building a focus timer: practical, specific, and honest about what a technique can and cannot do. They cover the ground around the tool rather than the tool itself — why starting a task is harder than doing it, what actually builds durable memory before an exam, how the Pomodoro Technique compares to planning your calendar in blocks, and where each approach breaks down.
Two things we try to hold to. First, we say when the evidence is thin: the Pomodoro Technique is a practitioner's method rather than a clinically tested one, and we would rather write that than dress it up. Second, we name the limits — several of these posts end by pointing out when the problem is not one a timer fixes at all.
If you want the practical rather than the theoretical, start with the 25-minute timer and come back when you want to know why it works. Found a factual error in something here? Tell us on the contact page and we will fix it.